Call for communications: International and Interdisciplinary Colloquium – Religious facts and media

The Ph. D. candidates of the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (EPHE-CNRS) organise a colloquim, devoted to Religious Facts and Media. It will take place in Paris, at the GSRL, on the 23rd and 24th of March 2016.

This colloquium will open for discussion the processes and issues at stake related to the mediatization of religion in a French society that largely considers itself to be secular. It will focus on the mainstream news media, both in their conventional and digital forms. It aims to encourage reflection about the mechanisms of information production on religious facts and to question the specificity of the media coverage of religious facts in France compared to foreign media practices.

It is opened to researchers, post-doctoral fellows and ph. D. candidates, French and foreign, from all fields.

The communications proposals, written in French or English, must contain the following elements: LAST NAME, First name, electronic adress, statute and academic institution of belonging of the author(s). They must indicate the direction(s) into which they fit. They must count 3000 characters (with spaces). They must be at the formats .rtf ou .doc. They must be received by September 15, 2015, with the following object: “colloquium proposal“, at this address: faits.religieux.et.medias@gmail.com.